Wednesday, November 04, 2009

There's only so much walkabouts in the heat that one can tolerate. When we spied this, I almost thought it a mirage. Not memorably sweet but real juicy. Pity the watermelon was not iced (better if it comes with a block of ice to sit on) but just look at that chopper. Cool huh.

Where to hide, where to hide when the sun doesn't seemed exhausted at all though it was tolling since 6am! Yessiirrreee, that star burns like no tomorrow from dawn till dusk during summer in the good 'ol Middle Kingdom. Everyday. When smiley weather person on the morning news predicts 34-36 degrees celcius, it's considered a cool day. (-_-)"

Unoriginal, uninteresting. But with air-conditioner at full blast, we gladly colonised a 1+1+1 settee here for hours on alternate days. Thank the Power-That-Be for franchises.

We were in Xi'an for 5D4N. Too long a stay for non-history (should it be historic? Historical?) buffs. Guilty. We were there mainly just to see the touristy Warriors. No doubt we went around other sites of interest but the punishing weather made the hours quite laborious. 3D2N would had been adequate. However, the extra days were unavoidable for we wanted to grab a much cheaper flight to Beijing.

Settees were set free dinner time - sunset. A cool 4 hours respite with great company, now that's a holiday.

Oh btw, if you come to jakarta again, don't forget to visit Central Park, the new mall beside mal TA, you must take picture of the toilet! It's so beautiful - the interior, decoration, lighting and also everything is "high-tech" inside it :D

8 of us were here and we enjoyed running up the steps of the immortal Emperor's hidden tomb. So that we could be refreshed for the backstreet german-chinese beer later on.Sadly we were 1/2 knocked out early while watching the "famous" drunken warrior show at night, and the other 1/2 cannot remember. The few thousand not moving stone statutes we saw in the day were ugly & the place temperature hot - what was the fuss really ?LOL !